Development of a measuring system for monitoring transport of boar semen from artificial insemination centers to sow farms

Abstract

During transport of boar semen for artificial insemination of pigs, there is currently no mobile measuring system available for recording all relevant impact factors systematically. Based on a survey of artificial insemination centers, this paper describes the requirements for a systematic approach to record all relevant environmental impact factors during the transport of artificial insemination doses. The developed system architecture as well as the implementation to fulfil the derived requirements is presented. An Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense with an external temperature sensor and an external luminance sensor is used as the measuring device. This device sends measurement data to a smartphone app using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). The app persists the measurement data on a local storage on the smartphone. With the presented mobile measuring system, a comprehensive monitoring for transport of artificial insemination doses becomes available.